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PROGRAM:

NAME

salt-call - salt-call Documentation

SYNOPSIS

salt-call [options]

DESCRIPTION

The salt-call command is used to run module functions locally on a minion instead of
executing them from the master. Salt-call is used to run a Standalone Minion, and was
originally created for troubleshooting.

The Salt Master is contacted to retrieve state files and other resources during execution
unless the --local option is specified.

NOTE:
salt-call commands execute from the current user's shell context, while salt commands
execute from the system's default context.

OPTIONS

--version
Print the version of Salt that is running.

--versions-report
Show program's dependencies and version number, and then exit

-h, --help
Show the help message and exit

-c CONFIG_DIR, --config-dir=CONFIG_dir
The location of the Salt configuration directory. This directory contains the
configuration files for Salt master and minions. The default location on most
systems is /etc/salt.

--hard-crash
Raise any original exception rather than exiting gracefully Default: False

-g, --grains
Return the information generated by the Salt grains

-m MODULE_DIRS, --module-dirs=MODULE_DIRS
Specify an additional directory to pull modules from. Multiple directories can be
provided by passing -m /--module-dirs multiple times.

-d, --doc, --documentation
Return the documentation for the specified module or for all modules if none are
specified

--master=MASTER
Specify the master to use. The minion must be authenticated with the master. If
this option is omitted, the master options from the minion config will be used. If
multi masters are set up the first listed master that responds will be used.

--return RETURNER
Set salt-call to pass the return data to one or many returner interfaces. To use
many returner interfaces specify a comma delimited list of returners.

--local
Run salt-call locally, as if there was no master running.

--file-root=FILE_ROOT
Set this directory as the base file root.

--pillar-root=PILLAR_ROOT
Set this directory as the base pillar root.

--retcode-passthrough
Exit with the salt call retcode and not the salt binary retcode

--metadata
Print out the execution metadata as well as the return. This will print out the
outputter data, the return code, etc.

--id=ID
Specify the minion id to use. If this option is omitted, the id option from the
minion config will be used.

--skip-grains
Do not load grains.

--refresh-grains-cache
Force a refresh of the grains cache

Logging Options
Logging options which override any settings defined on the configuration files.

-l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL
Console logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
quiet. Default: info.

--log-file=LOG_FILE
Log file path. Default: /var/log/salt/minion.

--log-file-level=LOG_LEVEL_LOGFILE
Logfile logging log level. One of all, garbage, trace, debug, info, warning, error,
quiet. Default: info.

Output Options
--out Pass in an alternative outputter to display the return of data. This outputter can
be any of the available outputters:
grains, highstate, json, key, overstatestage, pprint, raw, txt, yaml

Some outputters are formatted only for data returned from specific functions; for
instance, the grains outputter will not work for non-grains data.

If an outputter is used that does not support the data passed into it, then Salt
will fall back on the pprint outputter and display the return data using the Python
pprint standard library module.

NOTE:
If using --out=json, you will probably want --static as well. Without the
static option, you will get a separate JSON string per minion which makes JSON
output invalid as a whole. This is due to using an iterative outputter. So if
you want to feed it to a JSON parser, use --static as well.

--out-indent OUTPUT_INDENT, --output-indent OUTPUT_INDENT
Print the output indented by the provided value in spaces. Negative values disable
indentation. Only applicable in outputters that support indentation.

--out-file=OUTPUT_FILE, --output-file=OUTPUT_FILE
Write the output to the specified file.

--no-color
Disable all colored output

--force-color
Force colored output

NOTE:
When using colored output the color codes are as follows:

green denotes success, red denotes failure, blue denotes changes and success and
yellow denotes a expected future change in configuration.

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